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Mythic Mandarin

书法 (shū fǎ): meaning and stroke order

书法 (shū fǎ) means calligraphy, handwriting, penmanship.

书法

Simplified
书法
Traditional
書法
Pinyin
shū fǎ

Stroke order of 书法

书

  • Shū abbr. for 書經|书经[Shu1 jing1]
  • shū book; letter
  • 4 strokes
  • Traditional form: 書

Stroke by stroke

法

  • fǎ variant of 法[fa3]
  • Fǎ France; French
  • fǎ law; method
  • 8 strokes
  • Traditional form: 㳒

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 书法

  1. shū fǎ Traditional 書法
    • calligraphy
    • handwriting
    • penmanship

Radicals of the characters

书
Radical 乙 (Kangxi radical 5) · 4 strokes
法
Radical 水 (Kangxi radical 85) · 8 strokes · 氵 on the left, 去 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).